Research Reveals Chantix Side-effects Are Not Severe In People With A History Of Depression
Date: 2nd March 2009
According to a latest evaluation by Group Health, Free & Clear as well as SRI International researchers, people who take chantix (varenicline) and have a depression history are not prone to suffer from worse Chantix side-effects in comparison to people administering Chantix without any history of depression.
Sources reveal that the randomly conducted COMPASS experiment was funded by the “The National Cancer Institute” and it traced more than 1100 group health patients taking the anti-smoking pill chantix (varenicline) and behavioral therapy to trigger off smoking cessation.
As soon as the experiment ended, Jennifer McClure, leading author and Group Health Center for Health Studies' associate director and her associate researchers found that the usage of Chantix didn’t aggravate specific symptoms such as anxiety, depression and irritability among people with a depression history. However, she states that it would be considerably sensible for doctors and medicine practitioners to narrowly supervise patients taking chantix.
The COMPASS study also makes it apparent that specific side-effects of Varenicline such as nausea are comparatively common. Altogether, it reveals that a period of 3 weeks and 3 months after the target quit date of participants, individuals with depression history are prone to trigger off these side-effects more but not with a higher strength than people without depression history.
The results obtained from the Chantix experiment are published in the “Journal of General Internal Medicine”.
Source: http://www.genengnews.com/ |
